Sentence examples for gather powers from inspiring English sources

But here too we are increasingly to be watched, restricted, subject to arbitrary arrests like the #TwitterJokeTrial, while government and courts gather powers to disconnect us, block websites and monitor what we say and do.

Duan quickly began to gather power into his own hands.

Not that law schools' drive to make money and gather power is anything new.

Theocracies, he said, demonstrate "the tendency of human beings to gather power to themselves in the name of something that may not be questioned".

The electorate must be convinced above all that he wants to gather power to himself, not in his interests, but in theirs.

The importance of NTV's independent broadcasting has grown in direct relation to President Vladimir Putin's effort to gather power into his own hands and silence critics of his government.

Although the two were close, many Kandahar residents were suspicious of the mayor, in part because of his closeness to the Americans from his years living in the United States, but also because he lacked the tribal connections needed in Kandahar to gather power.

Even with a government lift, says Macaulay, "It's a lot more expensive to put transmission lines in to gather power from 100 different wind farms, scattered around in farm country, than it is to hook up one nuclear plant".

They have every incentive to gather power to themselves.

Crono and his friends then gather power by helping people across time with Gaspar's instructions.

"When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength".